Li Yong stood there, stunned, watching Bai Jing become more and more agitated as she spoke.

Professor Bai actually thinks this terrifying world is paradise?

Did I hear wrong? But judging from Professor Bai Yu's excited expression, he seemed very serious.

He Hu, who was standing to the side, seemed to have seen this side of Bai Jing before and was not surprised at all. He quickly changed the subject.

"Professor Bai, those snails have already been attracted away. Let's hurry up and leave."

Bai Jing nodded, reverting to her previous expressionless demeanor.

"Okay, let's go."

"The drone can only last for about ten minutes at most. Let's hurry to the eastern suburbs; there's a perfect test subject there!"

Speaking of his perfect test subject, Bai Jing seemed very excited and took the lead in preparing to leave.

Li Yong and He Hu exchanged a glance. Although neither of them spoke, they both knew what the other was thinking.

Professor Bai seems to be letting loose!

……

……

In the eastern suburbs, at Jinguang Temple, the main hall of the temple.

The hall was brightly lit.

A group of monks dressed in kasayas sat cross-legged on the ground, striking wooden fish and chanting the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Sutra, the sound of Buddhist chanting wafting through the air.

"Namo Great Vow Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva... The supreme, profound, and subtle Dharma is difficult to encounter even in hundreds of millions of kalpas... Repaying the fourfold kindness above, relieving the suffering of the three lower realms below... May all who see or hear this awaken the Bodhi mind... May we, in this very lifetime, be reborn in the Land of Ultimate Bliss..."

A group of monks sat around a lotus-shaped candle flame. In the middle sat a young monk of eleven or twelve years old, dressed in a mismatched manner, wearing sunglasses, and lying on the ground, yawning and striking a wooden fish.

"Master, I've finished copying all the scriptures. When will this ritual for the deceased end?"

"I'm going back to playing games."

The abbot was a slightly overweight monk with the Dharma name Konghai. He was fair-skinned, with large earlobes and eyes. He was over 40 years old, and even wearing a loose robe could not hide his plump figure.

Kukai looked at the Golden Boy, shook his head helplessly, but still patiently offered his advice.

"Junior brother, wait a little longer. This ritual must be completed properly, or this evil spirit might escape again!"

The Golden Boy sighed, looking very impatient.

He hasn't left the temple for two months, hasn't been online for a long time, even the WiFi is down, and he can't even browse TikTok. He's so bored.

If I hadn't cached a lot of completed novels on Tomato Novels beforehand, I probably would have been bored to death!

"You bald monk, are you trying to stop me from going online, so you cut off all the WiFi in the temple and even made up some weird apocalypse to fool me and prevent me from going to internet cafes?!"

"No, I absolutely have to go out tomorrow!"

Kukai looked helpless. "My little ancestor, the entire Shaluo County is dead, and you still want to get out?"

"Junior brother, I'm really not lying to you. Didn't you awaken your sequence too? You've seen a few of the strange creatures already, why would I lie to you?"

Jin Tongzi shook his head frantically, "I don't believe it! I don't believe it! Anyway, I'm going out tomorrow, I'm going to go and see Jinyang Elementary School!"

"No, we can't go out. Shaluo County has long been a ghost town, with hundreds of ghosts roaming at night. Some have died, some have fled, and the rest have all run to the vicinity of our Jinguang Temple."

"I know you want to go to Jinyang Elementary School to find that young girl, but you only met on Douyin!"

"Moreover, Jin Yang Elementary School had long been swallowed up by the eerie world. The survivors saw with their own eyes that the entire school was dead, hanging in the classrooms like dolls..."

"You're not allowed to go!"

Upon hearing the truth again, the Golden Boy still refused to believe it and burst into tears!

"I don't believe it! I don't believe it!"

As the two were arguing, a young monk ran up from outside the main hall and whispered a few words to Kukai.

"Host, something terrible has happened! The people outside are causing trouble again."

"They're making a scene again?" Kukai frowned.

After Shaluo County fell to the Japanese, Jinguang Temple, due to its special geographical location and distance from the city, became a haven of peace.

Moreover, perhaps because of this temple, most people are reluctant to approach it.

Therefore, many survivors took refuge near the Golden Light Temple.

At first, they took in some people, but after a couple of days, the number of people increased so much that they couldn't take them all in.

In the end, they had no choice but to close the mountain gates and live in seclusion.

Even so, more and more people fled to the vicinity of Jin Guang Temple, and soon the entire hillside below the temple was filled, turning it into a huge gathering place for survivors.

With a large population, many contradictions arise, especially in the apocalypse, when there is no supervision or legal constraints, and survivor settlements become increasingly chaotic.

This is the third unrest in recent days.

"Hirochi, what do those people outside want this time?" Kukai asked coldly.

"They said they wanted to go into the temple," Guangzhi said softly.

"Recently, fewer and fewer people have escaped from Shaluo County. The last group to escape was three days ago. There are rumors, rumors... rumors that the entire county is dead!"

Guangzhi's voice was very soft, but it still quieted down the entire Mahavira Hall.

Kukai also sensed that something was wrong and suddenly shouted loudly.

"Nonsense! There are so many people in this county, how could that be!"

"Survivors who escaped here said that there is a blessed land in Taolin, where evil spirits cannot invade, and there are a large number of survivors there, at least tens of thousands!"

"The government's underground shelters hold hundreds of thousands of people, plus military personnel!"

"And this city is so big, I heard many people have run away!"

"Don't listen to the nonsense from outsiders; they just want an excuse to enter the temple and take over our blessed land!"

The Jin Guang Temple absolutely cannot be in chaos now, especially the people in the temple must not be in disarray, otherwise there will be trouble!

Seeing that Kukai's tone was serious, Guangzhi lowered his head and did not continue the topic, then whispered.

"Those awakened ones also said that if they weren't allowed into the temple, they would give them supplies, because supplies outside were dwindling and people were already starving to death!"

"If we don't give them supplies, they'll break down the door!"

Kukai frowned deeply after hearing Hirochi's words.

At least tens of thousands of survivors were gathered around Jin Guang Temple, many of whom had fled the city in a panic with very few supplies.

Previously, some people would go to the city to collect supplies, but the mortality rate was extremely high, almost a nine-out-of-ten chance of dying.

So later, no one dared to go into the city to collect supplies anymore; they could only target their own people in the settlement.

Now this group of people has actually set their sights on Jin Guang Temple!

"A group of ordinary people awakened and thought they were something special. If it weren't for the Buddha in the Great Hall suppressing evil spirits, they would have been devoured by the monsters long ago!"

"Take me there, let's see which one of them dares!"

As Kukai spoke, he asked Hirochi to lead the way, as he wanted to personally meet the group of awakened individuals outside.

Just as the two were about to set off, a young monk ran in from outside the main hall.

"Host! Something terrible has happened!"

"Another group of survivors has arrived outside, in two trucks, and they've brought a whole bunch of weirdos with them!"

……

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